Witness: Teen gunman shot his friends — (CNN) — The shooter who opened fire Friday morning at Washington state's Marysville-Pilchuck High School played football and was recently named to the homecoming court. — Freshman Jaylen Fryberg walked into the school's cafeteria …

Friday Cancer Blogging - 24 October 2014 — A few of you have probably cottoned onto the fact that people don't usually spend a week in the hospital for a broken bone, even a backbone. So in the long tradition of releasing bad news on Friday afternoon, here's my first-ever Friday news dump.

Could non-citizens decide the November election? — Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens? Some argue that incidents of voting by non-citizens are so rare as to be inconsequential, with efforts to block fraud a screen for an agenda to prevent poor …

Sarah, Bristol & The Recurrence Of The Eternal Victim — As you've likely seen Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol have now spoken out about their notorious boozy family brawl, recasting Bristol's attack on the event's host as a morality tale about violence against women and media bias.

Report: Fox News Is Too Negative For Jeb Bush — No stranger to taking on his party's most conservative voters, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is now calling out the bastion of conservative media. — CNN's Peter Hamby reported that during a speech Thursday night at a South Carolina fundraiser …

What happened to that GOP lawsuit? — It takes about 10 minutes to walk from the Capitol to the federal courthouse just down the hill, but House Republicans haven't managed to make that trip in the four months since they announced they'd be suing the president.

The Case for Conservative Realism — “We need a foreign policy that recognizes our limits and preserves our might, a common-sense conservative realism of strength and action.” — Editor's Note: The following is the prepared text of a speech by Senator Rand Paul delivered in New York City …

Sun-Times reporters to owners: We want answers — Chicago Sun-Times journalists, who watched one of their political reporters resign this week, are asking the newspaper's owners for reassurance that they won't seek to influence editorial content. — The request comes in a petition that's also posted on the reporters' union website.